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to haul it away. From his window, Herndon saw the stand being dismantled and he asked the workmen to give it to him. The receipt lists the boards as “55 feet of used lumber from the inaugural stand (new front stand) in front of the White House.” It is dated February 17, 1961.
The boards are splotched and sooted from ashes that were applied to melt the 2V> feet of snow that fell on John Kennedy’s inaugural day. Black enamel stripes separated the seating of the dignitaries. Various scuffs and scratches lead one to imagine the footsteps of John Kennedy in his black patent leather dress shoes as he rose to review the parade and silently rehearse what he would soon say, “In the long history of the past, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger...And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you...”
Herndon started collecting inaugural stands with Truman’s 1949 ceremony; he gave them to political leaders around the country. Kennedy’s is the only one he kept.
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